Phantom Ganon

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Template:Sources Template:Boss Phantom Ganon is Ganondorf's mysterious puppet that appears multiple times in Template:LZS.

Appearances

Ocarina of Time

Strategy

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Phantom Ganon guards the Forest Temple.^[1] There are six identical paintings on the walls, which are of a road leading to a dark castle; Phantom Ganon jumps into one of them with his horse. After disappearing, two replicas of Phantom Ganon will ride to the front of two paintings. The real Phantom Ganon in the painting will be lighter than the fake. The sound of his horse's galloping is also an easily distinguished clue, as only the real one will make the noise. A purple vortex will appear before the one out of which the real Phantom Ganon will materialize.^[2] As he jumps out, he turns white, and at this point he can be shot with an arrow from the Fairy Bow (alternatively, the Hookshot can be used; however, the Fairy Bow's speed makes it a superior weapon for this battle). If the shot misses or is delayed, he summons an electric ball on the ground that scatters across the platform. This can easily be avoided by standing on one of the Triforce images in each corner of the platform. After taking sufficient damage (three shots), he leaves his horse and the second part of the battle begins.

He now starts to attack by shooting an energy ball from his staff at Link while hovering over the ground. Link can hit the ball back with the Master Sword or a Bottle. Repeated enough times, Phantom Ganon is eventually hit and falls to the ground paralyzed. He can now be hit multiple times with the Master Sword, and after enough hits, he is finally defeated. When his health is halved or less, he sometimes does another attack: He twirls his staff a few times, letting off small magic sparks to show he's about to attack; he then charges at Link, doing three hearts of damage. Once defeated, Link gains a Heart Container and the Forest Medallion. Ganondorf's disembodied voice is heard while the Phantom writhes; he calls it a "worthless creation" and banishes it "to the gap between dimensions."^[3]

The Wind Waker

Link encounters Phantom Ganon twice in The Wind Waker, once in the Forsaken Fortress and once in Ganon's Tower.^[4] In Ganon's Tower, he appears in every room of the maze leading to the Light Arrows and the room immediately after it. He has three major attacks:

He generates a blue orb, which he fires at Link.
He generates a large dark red energy ball, which splits into a group of small bursts of energy flying towards Link (Second encounter only).
He appears on the ground and swings his Sword at Link. On his second appearance, he will be accompanied by four illusions of himself, similar to Meg or the Poes in the Arbiter's Grounds.

Phantom Ganon can be defeated by reflecting his blue orbs with a Sword or empty Bottle in a game of Dead Man's Volley.^[5]^[6] Likewise, his small bursts of energy can be sent back at him with a Spin Attack. Once he is hit by the reflected attack, Link can attack him with his Sword. Link can also hurt him by intercepting his Sword attack. However, this can be difficult to accomplish as he generally appears behind Link during the first encounter and uses decoys during the second.

During the first encounter, he takes several hits with the Sword before he vanishes. After beating him, Link gains the Skull Hammer.^[7] On the second encounter, he vanishes after just one hit when he appears in the maze, and the handle of his Sword points at the door Link must take to advance.^[8] When Link reaches the Light Arrow room, he puts up more resistance, and takes several hits before he vanishes. On the final confrontation, he can only be defeated by a Light Arrow, which immediately kills him. Link then takes the deceased enemy's sword and throws it to the brick wall to gain access to Ganondorf's whereabouts.^[9]

Four Swords Adventures

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Phantom ganonFSA — The Links fighting against Phantom Ganon

First Time

Phantom Ganon reappears again in Four Swords Adventures. As with previous titles, the key to beating him is to patiently wait for him to fire his energy balls, and then knock them back and forth between Phantom Ganon and the Links. Once he is stunned, he is vulnerable to slashes from the Links' Sword.

Second Time

Phantom Ganon returns, bringing with him many clones. Defeating him is almost identical, as he is vulnerable to the same process as before. The real Phantom Ganon will throw green orbs that can be hit back, while the clones will throw white balls that will break when hit with the sword. Unlike in The Wind Waker, Phantom Ganon lacks a cape.

Twilight Princess

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During the horseback fight against Ganondorf in Hyrule Field, Ganondorf summons spectral horsemen that try to knock Link off of his horse. The horsemen ride phantom horses that resemble Ganondorf's black horse, and each have a pair of horns and a spear, similar to the Ocarina of Time version of Phantom Ganon. However, they are much weaker than any of the previous Phantom Ganons, and serve as minor distractions, rather than powerful enemies. They disappear if Link avoids them or they can be destroyed by a single slice of the Master Sword.

Non-canon Appearances

Non-Canon Information

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Phantom Ganon appears as a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Name	Image	Artwork from	Effect in The Subspace Emissary	Usable by
Phantom Ganon	File:Phantom Ganon Sticker.png	Ocarina of Time	[Darkness] - Attack +40	This sticker is only usable by Ganondorf

Hyrule Warriors

The Wind Waker incarnation of Phantom Ganon will make an appearance as a fightable boss in Hyrule Warriors Legends. He now wields two swords, like Ganondorf in the game.

Phantom Ganon's Sword

See also: Usable Enemy Weapons

File:Phantom Ganon Sword.png

This sword is used in both The Wind Waker and Four Swords Adventures. In The Wind Waker, it can only be used when Link is in Ganon's Tower. It is carried by Phantom Ganon and is dropped when Link kills him. In the maze within Ganon's Tower the sword falls onto the ground with the hilt pointing in the direction that Link needs to go to complete the maze.^[8] The sword can also be used to destroy the large door blocking Link's way to the top.

The Hylian script on Phantom Ganon's sword reads "Zubora Gabora", the names of the blacksmiths who forged Link's Razor Sword and Gilded Sword in Majora's Mask.

Trivia

Ocarina of Time's Phantom Ganon wields a Trident, referencing Ganon's incarnations in previous games.
In The Wind Waker, Phantom Ganon's theme is very similar to Ganon's battle theme from A Link to the Past. The tone of this theme increases the more times Link bounces back Phantom Ganon's attacks.
The The Wind Waker version of Phantom Ganon has a similar aesthetic to the Portals seen in Twilight Princess.
Phantom Ganon shares many design similarities with other major enemies. In Twilight Princess, Phantom Zant is also spectral copy of his creator while Death Sword is also a horned, ghostly creature with a skull for a face, the ability to fly and vanish, and wielding a similar sword, and the Phantoms of Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks wear armor with similar features as the Four Swords Adventures version of Phantom Ganon.
The blue outlines around Phantom Ganon's cape in The Wind Waker only appears on the sharp edges of the cape and will not move when the camera angle is rotated, while his body and sword have outlines on surfaces that faces away from the screen that can move when the camera angle is changed, keeping the outlines on "edges" on surfaces' side visible regardless of the camera's angle.

Gallery

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Phantom Ganon being defeated in Ocarina of Time
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Phantom Ganon being banished to the gap between dimensions
The mask that Phantom Ganon wears in Ocarina Of Time
Phantom Ganon's picture from the Boss Challenge in Ocarina of Time 3D
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Phantom Ganon preparing an attack in The Wind Waker
Phantom Ganon after being defeated by a light arrow
Link wielding Phantom Ganon's sword
Ganondorf charging with his phantoms in Twilight Princess
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Phantom Ganon in Hyrule Warriors Legends

References

↑ "Phantom Ganon It's an evil ghost of the Forest Temple! He comes out of one of the pictures. Answer his magic attack with an attack of your own!" — Navi (Ocarina of Time)
↑ "Phantom Ganon Attack him when he comes out of one of the pictures! Watch out for the fake one!" — Navi (Ocarina of Time)
↑ "Hey kid, you did quite well... It looks like you may be gaining some slight skill... But you have defeated only my phantom... When you fight the real me, it won't be so easy! What a worthless creation that ghost was! I will banish it to the gap between dimensions!!" — Ganondorf (Ocarina of Time)
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↑ "To defeat Phantom Ganon, swing your sword so it hits the ball of magic and sends it back at Phantom Ganon, who knocks it back at you. It's like a tennis game-keep returning Phantom Ganon's shots until he misses and is stunned by his own attack." (The Wind Waker manual, pg. 79)
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↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 "The sword-hilts of my servants who lurk deep in the darkness shall be the guideposts that point to me." — Stone in Ganon's Tower (The Wind Waker)
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Names in Other Regions
Language		Name	Meaning
	Japanese	Template:Japanese Template:ExpGame Template:Japanese Template:ExpGame	Evil Spirit of Another Dimension: Phantom Ganon Phantom Ganon
	French	Esprit Maléfique de l'Au-Delà: Ganon Spectral Template:ExpGame Fântome de Ganon Template:ExpGame	Evil Spirit from Beyond: Spectral Ganon Phantom Ganon
	French^CA	Ganon Spectral: Esprit maléfique de l'au-delà Template:ExpGame	Spectral Ganon: Evil Spirit from Beyond
	German	Reitendes Unheil: Phantom-Ganon Template:ExpGame	Riding Calamity: Phantom Ganon
	Italian	Spettroganon	Spectral Ganon
	Korean	Template:Korean	Evil Spirit from Another Dimension: Phantom Ganon
	Spanish	Ganon Fantasma	Phantom Ganon
	Spanish^LA	Espíritu maligno de ultratumba: Ganon Fantasma Template:ExpGame Ganon fantasma Template:ExpGame	Malignant Spirit from Beyond the Grave: Phantom Ganon Phantom Ganon